Addison Phillips wrote:
> Take a look at the _real_ definition of the language tags and
> xml:lang,
> which is RFC 4647. For a good intro, see:
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php
>
> RFC 4647 incorporates more than just the language and country
> codes into
> tags. One of the types of subtags is the "script" subtag. In your
> particular case, the script subtag "Brai" represents Braille.
>
> You might very well tags English braille texts as "en-Brai". US
> variants
> would be "en-Brai-US". British variants would be "en-Brai-GB".
Good so far.
> The Moon variation can be dealt with in two ways:
>
> 1. Private use code: "en-Brai-x-moon"
>
> 2. Registration with IANA (see RFC 4647) would allow it as a variant
> subtag, making either of these valid:
No, the Moon embossment is definitely NOT a variant of Braille.
I think it would also be wrong to label it as "Latn" (even though
the glyph/embossment shapes are inspired by the Latin script).
It currently does not have a script code, nor an encoding in Unicode.
/Kent Karlsson